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BREAKING …The former boyfriend of Dr. Amie Harwick has been found guilty of killing the Hollywood therapist.

With the first-degree murder verdict from a jury moments ago, Gareth Pursehouse could be sentenced to life behind bars. Under California law, he will have no possibility of parole. Already in custody, Pursehouse is scheduled to be sentenced on December 6.

A well-known family and sex therapist and ex-fiancée of Drew Carey , Harwick was thrown from the third-floor balcony of her Hollywood Hills home on February 15, 2020.

While the autopsy report cited the main reason for Harwick’s death as blunt force injuries to the skull and body from a fall, “manual strangulation” was also noted by the LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner just days after the therapist’s killing, Along with a burglary charge, Pursehouse was determined to behave been “lying in wait” for up to four hours to kill Harwick — with whom he was said to be obsessed.

The jury reached their verdict against Pursehouse after just seven hours of deliberation in downtown LA over the past two days. The defense rested in the matter without ever presenting a case for their client

There is no felony murder chzrge under the Golden State’s penal code, which meant prosecutors needed to prove intent and malice to get a first-degree murder conviction. As the jury’s decision today makes clear, the prosecution clearly met that challenge

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On Wednesday, Meta announced its consumer-friendly entry into the crowded AI chatbot landscape, The Verge reports. During a presentation at Meta Connect 2023, the company said it is launching its own “Meta AI” chat assistant and a selection of AI characters across its messaging platforms, including WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger.

Meta’s new AI assistant will likely feel familiar to anyone who has used chatbots like ChatGPT or Claude . It is designed as a general-purpose chatbot that Meta says can help with planning trips, answering questions, and generating images from text prompts. The assistant will also integrate real-time results from Microsoft’s Bing search engine, giving it access to current information—similar to Bing Chat, ChatGPT’s browsing plugin, and Google Bard.

During demos, The Verge says that Meta’s AI was able to quickly generate high-resolution images from short text descriptions using an “/imagine” prompt, and the feature will be free to use. While Meta did not disclose full details of the new AI assistant’s training, the company said it’s a custom model that is partially based on the company’s LLaMA 2 language model, released in July.

In addition to the general assistant, Meta is rolling out 28 AI-powered characters across its messaging platforms, including many played by celebrities, such as Tom Brady (who plays “Bru,” a sports fanatic), Kendall Jenner (who plays “Billie,” the “big sis”), and Snoop Dogg (who is a “dungeon master” with gaming advice).

According to TechCrunch , the celebrity images are not purely videos but can be manipulated generatively to function as novel animations. Yet they reportedly also do not speak, so they’re more like representative avatars of the text-based AI bot personalities. Meta says the celebrity AIs went into limited beta on Wednesday, but we have not seen on-the-ground (or on-the-phone, as it were) reports of them in action yet.

To ensure that these celebrity AI characters don’t go into Tay territory and spout embarrassing or harmful phrases, the company says it spent 6,000 hours in red teaming exercises to identify and address potential problematic uses of its assistants. This process included generating thousands of internal conversations to refine the assistant’s behavior and responses.

For now, Meta’s new assistant has not trained on public user data from Instagram or Facebook. However, The Verge hinted that this could change as the company aims to enhance its chatbot’s usefulness through “social integrations,” according to Ahmad Al-Dahle, Meta’s VP of generative AI.

Meta executives view the company’s massive user reach as a key advantage, with billions of daily users across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Messenger. While OpenAI arguably pioneered the generative AI chatbot space, it’s possible that Meta’s scale will allow its assistant to reach more consumers for their first chatbot experience—while increasing lucrative user engagement in its apps.

A tragic motorcycle accident claimed the life of a 52 year old construction worker in Na Yong district, Trang province. The incident took place yesterday around 1am, near his home.

The construction worker, Seree, lost control of his motorcycle, which then veered off the road and plunged into a canal. His body was discovered a day later after a 30 minute search by rescue workers.

The rescue team from Trang’s Kuson Foundation (Tek Xiang Tung branch), the Sa Wang Bak Dee Trang rescue unit, and several volunteers found Seree’s lifeless body lying face down under about 1-2 metres of water.

The initial investigation suggested that the victim had been dead for about a day.

His blue and white Yamaha Met (Nang Phraya) motorcycle, with the license plate P 4883 Trang, was found submerged about 15 metres from his body.

The tragic scene was filled with grief as the victim’s relatives cried and collapsed on the roadside. Preliminary inquiries revealed that Seree had left his home around 5pm on September 24 to visit his wife’s house nearby. However, he mysteriously disappeared. His relatives had been searching for him since but to no avail.

On September 25, his family reported him missing via social media and set out to look for him. They followed the route he usually took and found signs of a vehicle skidding off the road near the canal, about 300-400 metres away from his home. Upon further inspection, they discovered the submerged motorcycle in the canal and subsequently found the body.

Although the authorities sent Seree’s body for a detailed autopsy, initial findings suggested no signs of struggle or assault.

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The family, who did not suspect foul play, believed it was a tragic accident where Seree lost control and fell into the canal. They are preparing for his funeral according to religious rites, reports Khaosod Online.

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